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Gov. Walker says tribes 'far from reaching agreement' on Kenosha casino
In his daily update on the bid to open a Kenosha Indian casino, Gov. Scott Walker bypassed the Menominee tribe's claim that it has received unanimous approval from each of Wisconsin's 11 tribes.
The governor has said the Menominee proposal must receive unanimous approval before he would approve the project. »Read Full Article(35)
Judge freezes assets of man SEC accuses of running Ponzi scheme
A federal judge Wednesday froze the assets of Loren Holzhueter, the Watertown insurance agent charged with securities fraud in a lawsuit filed by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
U.S. District Judge James Peterson issued the order, which was sought by the SEC last week when it sued the 69-year-old Holzhueter, who the agency contends was running a $10 million Ponzi scheme. Separately, criminal investigators from the IRS are also investigating Holzhueter and raided his Watertown office in 2013. »Read Full Article
France's Esker acquires Fitchburg tech company TermSync
TermSync Inc., a Fitchburg company with an accounts receivable automation platform, has been acquired by Esker, a publicly traded French company that operates around the globe.
A sale price was not disclosed, but the companies said that 33% of the amount will be paid to selling shareholders based on the performance achieved at the end of a two-year period. Also, about 20% of the value of the transaction will be paid with shares currently held by Esker. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee area jobless rate holds steady at 5.2%
The unemployment rate in the four-county Milwaukee metropolitan area held steady at an estimated 5.2% in December from November and improved from 6.2% in the same month one year earlier.
The monthly unemployment rate report, released Wednesday by the state Department of Workforce Development, is useful for comparing one metro region inside the state with another. »Read Full Article
Meijer to begin hiring in March for its first Wisconsin stores
More than two years after Meijer first said it was considering opening stores in Wisconsin, the Grand Rapids, Mich.-based retailer is prepared to begin hiring at its first locations in the state, the company said Wednesday.
Meijer said Wednesday its stores in Grafton and Kenosha will open in June and its stores in Oak Creek and Wauwatosa will follow in August. »Read Full Article
Start-up Okanjo Partners raises $1.7 million from investors
In a likely prelude to a venture capital round, Okanjo Partners Inc. has raised $1.7 million in new funding from local angel investors.
The Milwaukee start-up, which operates an e-commerce advertisement platform, could be raising more money from venture capital firms in as little as six months, said Ted Feierstein, founding partner of Lean Tech Group LLC, a Chicago firm that works with Midwestern technology start-ups. »Read Full Article
Bus drivers' union voices opposition to Milwaukee streetcar
The union representing 1,700 Milwaukee County transit workers announced it is opposed to the downtown streetcar plan.
"It may seem odd for our union to oppose a streetcar which will undoubtedly create many jobs for our members," Amalgamated Transit Union President Lawrence Hanley wrote in a letter dated Tuesday to Ald. Joe Davis, an opponent of the $124 million project. »Read Full Article
Nissan recalls SUVs to fix electrical shorts, hood latches
DETROIT (AP) - Nissan is recalling nearly 768,000 SUVs worldwide to fix faulty hood latches and electrical shorts that could cause fires.
The larger Nissan recall announced Wednesday covers more than 552,000 Rogue small SUVs from 2008 through 2013 and Rogue Select SUVs from 2014. Snow and salty water can seep through the driver's side carpet to a wiring harness, causing electrical shorts. Nissan says there were reports of shorts but no fires or injuries. Most of the Rogues were sold in North America, but some were outside the region. »Read Full Article
Rockwell's sales slip 1% on surging dollar
Rockwell Automation Inc. on Wednesday joined a chorus of other U.S. multinational corporations that complained that the surging value of the dollar is weighing on their businesses.
The Milwaukee-based supplier of industrial automation systems and software, which generates half of its business outside the United States, said worldwide sales in its first fiscal quarter would have risen by more than 2% if all currency exchange rates had remained constant. »Read Full Article
Research Park incubator adds more tenants
The Milwaukee County Research Park's business incubator is adding tenants, and jobs.
Known formally as the Technology Innovation Center, it had an occupancy rate of 84% at the end of 2014, with more space leased this month, said Guy Mascari, the center's director. »Read Full Blog Post
Menasha Corp. plans new headquarters in Neenah
Menasha Corp. said Wednesday it plans to construct a new office building that will house its companywide headquarters and Menasha Packaging Co.'s corporate office.
The new building will be on the site of the company's current headquarters at 1645 Bergstrom Road in Neenah. »Read Full Article
New Pabst owner envisions bringing brands home
Pabst Brewing Co., which shut down its Milwaukee brewery nearly 20 years ago, might be coming home.
Eugene Kashper, Pabst's new owner, is scouting locations to open a small brewery, possibly with a tasting room, in the city where the company was founded in the 19th century. That pilot brewery would be used to make and sample new products. »Read Full Article
Mitchell International Airport baggage claim area lightens up
It's the taken-for-granted portion of the airport, the place where no one wants to spend any more time than necessary: baggage claim.
Work on the more than $40 million renovation of the baggage claim area at Mitchell International Airport is continuing, with a scheduled completion date in summer. »Read Full Article
Watertown insurance agent ran $10 million Ponzi scheme, feds allege
Loren Holzhueter raked in more than $10 million through a Ponzi scheme run out of his small Watertown insurance agency, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged in a securities fraud lawsuit that seeks to freeze Holzhueter's assets.
At least 122 investors, some of whom the SEC said were "retired and have modest or limited financial resources," were told "a wide array of lies" by Holzhueter, the SEC said in the suit. Holzhueter, 69, and one of his companies were charged with five counts of securities fraud. »Read Full Article
Walker proposes investment of $220 million for Bucks arena
Calling his plan a "common-sense, fiscally conservative approach," Gov. Scott Walker on Tuesday said new growth in income tax revenue from Milwaukee Bucks players, employees and visiting teams will generate enough money to cover debt payments on $220 million in state-issued bonds for a new arena.
Walker told members of the Metropolitan Milwaukee Association of Commerce and media at a news conference that he would put the plan in his state budget next week. »Read Full Article
Abele taps Dayton airport director to lead Mitchell
Terry Slaybaugh, airport director at Dayton International Airport in Ohio, has been named the new airport director for Mitchell International Airport, Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele said Tuesday.
Slaybaugh takes over for Barry Bateman, who retired in April. »Read Full Article
American Family to feature Jennifer Hudson in Super Bowl ad
Singer and actress Jennifer Hudson stars in a Super Bowl ad that helps launch American Family Insurance's new #DreamFearlessly multimedia advertising campaign, the company said Tuesday.
The Madison-based insurer said the TV ad, which will be aired regionally during the game in states where American Family operates, will mark the third time the company has advertised in a Super Bowl. The campaign, created by BBDO NY, will initially be seen in 70 markets by more than 33 million Americans, the company said. »Read Full Article
Marten Transport fourth-quarter profit rose 22.8%
Net income at Marten Transport Ltd. rose 22.8% in the fourth quarter as the trucking company's revenue growth outpaced expenses.
Marten netted $9.0 million, or 27 cents a share, up from $7.3 million, or 22 cents, a year ago. Revenue was $173.5 million, up 4.4% from $166.2 million. »Read Full Article
Middleton nanotech company Xolve raises $1.8 million
Xolve Inc., a Middleton nanotechnology firm, has raised $1.8 million of a proposed $2.8 million funding round, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
Twenty-one investors have participated in the funding so far, according to the filing. The round brings to $6.4 million the amount the company has raised in the last four years, according to www.formds.com. »Read Full Article
Milwaukee Brewing Co. shipments increased 54% in 2014
Milwaukee Brewing Co. shipped 12,000 barrels of beer in 2014, a 54% increase from the previous year, after adding more space to its Walker's Point brewery.
Milwaukee Brewing, 613 S. 2nd St., owned by Jim McCabe and Jim Hughes, now has 19 products, and expanded last year to the Minneapolis/St. Paul area, according to a company statement. Its brands include Louie's Demise, Pull Chain and Polish Moon. »Read Full Article
A.O. Smith fourth-quarter earnings rise 25.5%
A.O. Smith Corp. said Tuesday it posted strong gains in the fourth quarter to end the Milwaukee-based water technology company's 140th year with record sales.
A.O. Smith reported net income rose 25.5% to $53.2 million, or 59 cents a share, from $42.4 million, or 46 cents, a year earlier. »Read Full Article
Oshkosh earnings fall 40% on lower military vehicle sales
With a 44% drop in military vehicle revenue, Oshkosh Corp. on Tuesday reported a sharp decline in earnings for its fiscal first quarter but exceeded analysts' expectations.
The company posted net income of $34.6 million, or 43 cents a share, down 40% from $54.7 million, or 63 cents, a year earlier. »Read Full Article
Possible office project planned for Third Ward
A possible office development in Milwaukee's Historic Third Ward received its first city approval Monday.
The Plan Commission unanimously recommended vacating a city alley in the middle of a site bordered mainly by N. Milwaukee, N. Young and E. Erie streets. »Read Full Blog Post

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In a world plagued by the financial blues, the Japanese stand out for their particularly dour outlook, according to a new survey of global economic attitudes by the Pew Research Center.
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Fridays are the new Mondays.
I remember when I used to work for GE, I day dreamed about Friday afternoon all week long. I mean, the only good thing about working is that you make some money to spend when you're not working. (i know. my mentality. not yours.) Friday work days ended at around 6pm, and at […]
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Girls are animals.
Can someone please explain to me what it is about girls and their alcohol that makes them become so totally destructive? When I first opened up the bar on Lark Street, I was SO excited about it. I went out to Home Depot and bought a beautiful recessed medicine cabinet with a mirror on […]
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My tree needs a hug.
2 years ago, I moved out of the comfortable, parking-ticket-happy Center Square Neighborhood and bought an old warehouse down in North Albany sort of by Huck Finn's. I loooooove living down here. I'm not quite sure why more people haven't migrated down to this part of town. North Albany is the hidden gem of […]
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It's totally crazy that someone might actually read this. And I'm not the greatest writer, so you'll have to bear with me. Or is it bare with me. So this week for me was pretty crazy. Last Tuesday (Cinco de Mayo), we opened the 2nd Bombers Burrito Bar in Schenectady, New York. It was […]
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By Gregg
Spatial Developers in a Team RoomSo Stefanie's right; but a slight introduction before the criteria. We were floundering big time with Agile. Our original belief was a take-no-prisoners, do-everything-the-book-said, all-R&D strategy. What we ended up with were endless meetings and mind-numbing philosophical debates on "what Agile really was". It didn't help when we heard outside sources say, "well, I've seen it before and it was like this". But these outside sources were hapless in helping us install it at Spatial. I personally felt we were chasing a ghost.
So this is what we did; first, we carved out one significant 'delivery' of R&D that needed to be done by the next release (later to be called an epic). I let the rest of the R&D activities, the smaller miscellaneous ones (bug fixes, minor enhancements), go on their merry way un-encumbered with Agile. I assigned six people to this epic delivery, for a six week duration (later to be called a sprint), and gave them the following conditions and promises:
#1 You will work on this epic and this epic only. No more having a delivery team schedule a bunch of disparate activities for an iteration; minor bug fixes, major project work, along with all the other crap that happens in the daily life of developers. If someone in the group was a specialist that only knew a certain area of code, I would prioritize whatever needed to done on that code later. Or, I would MAKE someone else (not on the epic) learn on the job. (This is why, largely, we only did this with a subset of our R&D staff.) But the major point was to allow them to do Agile on one specific epic, and to not be interrupted!
#2 You will all go in one room and you will not work from your offices or cubes. BUT, and this is very important, we will never, ever, take your private office or cube away. (I had to get a personal promise from our CEO.) It was this condition that started our notion of a Team Room.
#3 The epic will be well defined and relatively narrow or specific. I wouldn't let an epic (or team room) start unless we had some reasonable definition and a prototype worked out. These prototypes might have been done individually or by a small group of people, but we had a pretty good idea of how we wanted to solve the problem before the team room started. Hence, it was reasonably well-defined and the group could start running on day one.
#4 All the resources needed for the epic will be in the team room. There were to be NO external dependencies. I didn't want to hear, "we're blocked, Fred from the blah-blah group needs to deliver this code before we can move on". If Fred had something that needed to be done for that epic he was in the team room for the entire six weeks. (This meant it was his ass on the line as well). This included QA, documentation and a position we created called, 'Team Room PM'. The Team Room PM was the priority man. He was on the team and made all final decisions. (But to be sure, the epic was planned and scheduled by the higher level PM group outside of development.) This did mean we had to well think-out who was to be in the room. (Hence, number three is important).
#5 It ends in six weeks. After its over, you can spend time working independently; prototyping future epics, scanning code, fixing bugs, reading, and most importantly, thinking. You can go back into a team room when the next one starts and you're ready.
#6 If you fail, fail quickly and decisively. I'm a big believer in having an environment where people feel 'safe to fail'. It's not that I wanted epics or team rooms to go bust, its more I wanted transparency. We work on a very complex and difficult piece of software. I've had what I thought were great ideas that didn't pan out, and if they didn't, you had to be man enough to say, "well, rats, that didn't work"; and management needs to know when to stop feeding a dead horse. (Of course, the horse could be the project or you!).
#7 Lastly, the rest of XP and Agile is up to you. Pair program, don't pair program. Unit test, don't unit test. Play planning poker, don't play planning poker. Decide your own iteration schedule, one day iterations, four day iterations, one hour iterations . . . I don't care! This might have been exhaustion on my part, but this is where it all got interesting . . . all the things that we were trying to force earlier, especially pair programming, teaminess (not a word); now happened naturally. We didn't have to force them or set up goofy metrics to measure how much we were adhering to. (One brain-dead idea from the first year, was to award an iPad to the developer who logged the most pairing hours.)
P.S. The one aspect of Agile (or XP, if you like) I didn't address was 'vertical slicing'. Okay, there is a lot of XP/Agile that I didn't address, but I'm a big believer that vertical slicing is a most central and important concept. I didn't want the team rooms to ignore this, but again, I didn't want to force it. The question in my head was . . . if conditions #1 - 7 were in place, would vertical slicing become a natural practice, like pair programming did?
You'll have to wait for the next post to find out!
By Stefanie
New Year, time for some resolutions that I'm surely not going to keep. One for work - I really need to make a bigger contribution to the blog. I have a few new ideas, but before getting too ambitious, I need to use one that has been in the, well, backlog, you might say, for a while.
Let me turn my memory back to a time when I worked in the Spatial office (I'm remote now, more on that another time), and I would wander into Gregg's office where we'd solve all the problems of the world, compare notes on our sons, and make an earnest pact to get more serious about the blog. We'd list out 20 or 30 entries which I'm sure will never get written. There is one that stands out, which really Gregg should write, but since he is never going to, I'm going to force his hand.
Let me go back a more few years to a time when we were trying to improve our development practices by going through a major transition to Agile. It wasn't going too well yet, for various reasons… skepticism, an imperfect fit, resistance to change? Not sure. My particular sore point was unit testing. As manager of QA, I was very interested to see us give it a real go, but that wasn't happening. During a long discussion with our then boss about why Agile wasn't sticking, he asked, "Well, what would you do?" I said without thinking, "I'd just stick them all in a room and MAKE them do it!!!!!" (Managing a development team a year later was a humbling and probably beneficial experience for me.)
But wait, this post shouldn't be about me, Gregg was really the one with the ideas . . .
The next day we had a meeting where the boss suggested . . . just that, albeit slightly more politely. To everyone's surprise, Gregg took the idea and ran with it. Literally, I think he may have run out of the room and come back with a list on a napkin five minutes later. What was on it?
The TEAM ROOM (Gregg loves coming up with new catch phrases)
Mandatory criteria for running a team room . . .
Want to find out more about what was on it? Come back soon… I'd like to see him try to get out of this one!
By Eric
Ramblings about the benefits and perils of polymorphism.
Use of virtual functions, function pointers, or other delayed function dispatch, distinguishes object oriented programming methods from others. This enables you to make abstractions to separate components (by which I mean coherent and tightly coupled sections of code) from each other. The ignorance of how services are provided strengthens the code by allowing you to make significant changes to one component without affecting others. Or that is how it is supposed to work . . .
Browsing online, I stumbled across instructions for how developers may contribute to the ffmpeg codec family and the Linux kernel. In both of these cases, the overall project is done in an object oriented fashion using C. From the documentation, structs with function pointers are used to define interfaces for how the kernel talks to a device driver or how codecs talk with other parts of the software. Based on the success of both of these projects, these would seem to be cases where polymorphism is used appropriately.
There are several ways polymorphism can be harmful:
There are two basic performance penalties from polymorphism:
These considerations argue for making polymorphism at as high a level as possible.
Poor abstractions may be the biggest problem with object oriented programming. The point of an interface is that it stays fixed while the components talking to each other evolve. Bad interfaces can leave both clients and servers trying to do things that the interface doesn't allow, which commit thought crimes that maim both clients and servers.
Finally, there is a critique of object oriented programming that it pushes developers towards designs where the computation is done primarily through state change of objects. Advocates of functional programming effectively argue this is not a good idea. State change doesn't mix well with multithreading. Current GPU programming interfaces. Designs based on state changes may lead to "secret handshakes" between components which makes software very hard to understand.
What do you think?
By jeff
I'm generally disappointed when I come across source code examples for multiprocessing technologies that use trivial algorithms to demonstrate the simplicity of an implementation. This not only establishes expectations that are unrealistic but also hides details that are painfully discovered when applied to more complex code. We are after all, trying to improve performance in our real-world applications with multiprocessing by targeting algorithms that have a real impact on the end user, which probably does not include a bubble sort.
As mentioned in my previous post, I have a new toy with 48 cores and thought it would be interesting to put the various multiprocessing technologies that are at my disposal to the test. These are: OpenMP, MPI, PPL (Microsoft Concurrency Runtime), the ACIS thread manager, and the CGM multiprocessing infrastructure. Forgive me for creating yet another trivial example, but finding prime numbers is simple and yet compute intensive, and serves my purpose well. The challenge is to find the number of primes between 1 and 100,000,000 as quickly as possible. I'm using Visual Studio 2010 when possible, targeting 64 bit release binaries. Here are the results:
Before evaluating the results, let's first have a look at the implementation. I'm not going to show all of the code but instead just focus on the highlights. Let's start with the original implementation used to calculate the serial time. As we can see, the iterations of the loop test for primality and conditionally increment a total. I've included the IsPrime function (in a simplified format) just to show that it is reentrant. This function is thread-safe because it does not modify or maintain state data, and will therefore not have any side effects.
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The OpenMP version only requires one additional line of code to add parallelism. The pragma statement instructs OpenMP to parallelize the loop, to create a thread-local version of Primes to be summed up at the end, and to schedule the iterations using a guided approach. The syntax is quite simple and is explained in more detail on Wikipedia.
The PPL version also requires only minor changes. I used the parallel_for statement from the Parallel Patterns Library, which is part of the Microsoft Concurrency Runtime. This version takes a start and end value, and a lambda expression, which consists of a capture clause, a parameter list, and a function body. A more thorough explanation can be found on the MSDN website. The Windows kernel function InterlockedIncrement avoids race conditions by incrementing the Primes variable atomically.
The other three implementations (ACIS, CGM, and MPI) are not as trivial because we have to divide the work into smaller pieces, typically into one task for each processor. So we divide up the range into 48 pieces and let each process/thread calculate the number of primes in their sub-range. Then we add all the answers together. The ACIS implementation is shown below.
Part I
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In terms of simplicity and performance, OpenMP is the clear winner. It achieved almost perfect scaling and the implementation is simple and straightforward. PPL is a close second, requiring very few changes to original code with good scalability. The syntax is a bit difficult to understand at first but lambda expressions are the new thing. So much so that they are included in the next C++ standard.
The downfall of these two approaches is that they do not allow the developer to have any control of the threads that are used. When used in ACIS operations, each thread must initialize and terminate the modeler appropriately. Since we do not know which threads will be used by OpenMP and PPL, we must make sure they have properly initialized ACIS in every iteration of the loop. This will certainly have an impact on performance and explains why the ACIS thread manager maintains a pool of pre-initialized threads.
The ACIS and MPI implementations are close in performance and similar in implementation. This is not surprising because the main drawback when using multiple processes is in the overhead of inter-process communication. This is not an issue in the primes example because we are sending two integers to each process (start and stop values) and are receiving one back (the number of primes found in the range). When used in geometric modeling code, this can be a bottleneck.
The CGM results are not what I expected but it's a bit unfair to be critical at this point. I did after all make significant changes to ACIS in order to handle more than eight threads concurrently. This work has simply not yet been done in CGM. These types of tests put the magnifying glass on the infrastructure, and in the CGM case has exposed additional overhead in creating processes, loading DLLs, and processing the task queue. Things to address in time.
I am writing this blog post largely in response to John's blog post: Public Virtual Methods: A Bad Idea. John and I work closely, and have for as long as I have been at Spatial. I like working with him because,
John has always been good about thinking over ideas together, so I don't think this particular post should cause me too much trouble. Before I start my main argument, I should stipulate that in the case where you use inheritance to make some of the implementation of the derived class John's argument is perfectly correct.
Please examine the following header file snippet:
Is this in any way bad style? Does the interface presented have the problem of trying to serve two purposes?
A purely abstract class (i.e., all virtual pure methods, except destructor which is impure but virtual) merely defines method names and signatures; it just defines syntax for service providers and clients to mediate provision of services. COM utilizes this pattern extensively to good effect. Also, CGM operators follow this pattern: in CGM, clients of the library are not typically expected to derive operators merely make them and use them. Arguably, this programming standard is better than many others one might encounter.
Inheritance makes C++ much more convenient for writing maintainable software then, for example, C or Fortran. But inheritance in general may be more trouble than it is worth. For example, the Gang of Four book (link to Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_Patterns) argues to "Favor object composition over class inheritance". Even using public inheritance to implement functionality in derived classes runs some risk of coupling between the base class and the derived class. If C++ where modified to allow classes with public and private access, and forbid all forms of inheritance other than inheritance from interfaces (i.e., abstract base classes with only pure virtual methods), I think it would be just as useful as it is now (but a lot more verbose).
The main argument for this point consists of a simple refactoring. Suppose we have an abstract base class with private virtual methods:
We can always write code that does the same thing without inheriting from the implementation as follows:
In the implementation of BaseClass you merely call pd->CustomizableStep1(/*…*/) rather than ABaseClass::CustomizableStep1(/*…*/).
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As a fatherhood coach, Earl Betts has spent a lot of his energy trying to heal damaged relationships between men and their offspring and wives.
"Sometimes we leave, sometimes we get pushed out, but there's always a way back," said Betts, who works with Family Support Hawaii's Fatherhood Initiative.
Ninety percent of all homeless and runaway children, 71 percent of pregnant teenagers and 75 percent of all youths in chemical abuse centers come from fatherless homes, according to the Fatherhood Initiative.
"It's not so much a job as a calling," Betts said about being a father. "You have to have a heart for it."
Today, families across the island and nation are celebrating the often cherished, sometimes absent and occasionally underrated figure we call Dad.
For many children, there never seems to be enough father, wrote Robert Bly, an American poet whose book "Iron John: A Book About Men" became a centerpiece of the men's movement in the 1990s. The father is often blamed for being absent while he tries to juggle the multiple responsibilities of being father, provider, spouse and an individual with his own needs for personal freedom, according to Bly.
Kailua-Kona resident Lance McCracken welcomed his daughter, Jaia, into the world five months ago. He and his wife, Jasmin, had a home birth — their second.
Like many dads, Lance has no regrets. But he has, undeniably, seen his freedoms curtailed.
"You're not doing what you want anymore; you're doing what they want," he said with a grin. "I tell my friends who are thinking about having a kid: Go do some stuff you want to do right now, because otherwise you'll have to wait until the kid is 10.
"I'm glad I had kids and settled down instead of doing more crazy stuff, or I probably would have missed the chance altogether."
Last Saturday, fathers were feted at the 11th annual Celebration of Fatherhood at the Queen Liliuokalani Children's Center in Kailua-Kona. Kids and dads charged down the water slide and enjoyed a bounce house and free food at the event put on by Family Support Hawaii.
Chris Olivera, 7, who played on benches at the Children's Center, said he was planning a surprise for his father, who works at Rent-A-Center.
"He's funny, he loves me and it's always really good to see him because he's always working," Olivera said.
His friend, Tahoe Obregon, 8, has a dad who takes him fishing — one of the highest marks a father can score with a son.
"When I get my fishing stuff tangled," Obregon said, "he untangles it."
Betts has two daughters, ages 21 and 3. His eldest is studying in California.
"Usually, I get a card, a present, a thank-you," he said. "She's good for that. The 3-year-old, she gets me shirts, usually orange."
His father, 71, has been married to his mother 49 years.
"An amazing example of a man. A good provider, but from a different era," Betts said of his father. "Not a warm fuzzy, but he'd show you that he loves you."
As for where Father's Day originated?
"I would check Hallmark," Betts laughed. "It makes sense."
Like many other holidays, Father's Day hasn't escaped rampant commercialism. The day has different origin stories attached to it, according to the website The Art of Manliness. The most widely accepted story says the first Father's Day was observed June 19, 1910, in Washington State. Sonora Smart Dodd proposed the holiday to celebrate her father, a Civil War veteran who raised six children by himself on a small farm and deserved, she thought, the same level of recognition as mothers.
Celebrations of fatherhood were hosted in different communities throughout the country in the early and middle 20th century. But Father's Day faced resistance from citizens and lawmakers who didn't want another commercial holiday such as Mother's Day, and it wasn't officially recognized as a national observance until 1972.
Today, it's celebrated around the world at various times of the year.
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Hi all, Figured I would post some pictures of our remodeled kitchen. To start, the kitchen was horrible when we purchased the home, poor layout, builder special re-muddled cabinets. Click on the "HOUZZ LINK" below the pic to see all our kitchen/breakfast room photos. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail me. |
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- Posted by liriodendron (My Page) on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 12:04
Call me suspiscious but you bought this house and posted about it nine days ago and now you have a finished kitchen of it up on Houzz? Really? Kitchen is nice, though, but with the open email addy, I'm thinkin' this may be SPAM. L.. |
NOT spam. We purchased the house a couple years ago and I have been working every day after work and weekends to rehab it. This the first time I have time to sit back and post. Feel free to email me should you have anymore concerns with the validity of my post. Thanks, |
- Posted by shillanorth (My Page) on Thu, Aug 8, 13 at 15:29
Looks stunning - such a lot of work - you should be proud of what you have accomplished. |
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Great job! This is one I would have clipped for my files. Congrats. |
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Lovely cabinetry! You should post this over at the GW Kitchens forum, where many folks are working with older turn-of-the-century kitchens. |
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Your kitchen is gorgeous! Did you go to Lizell or the Amish Loft for your cabinets? I just sent my drawings to Lizell for a quote but am a little concerned with the fact I have seen no feedback from anyone yet. Also the story I am getting about the split between the two companies and the fact they both have the same images on the site concern me greatly. I would LOVE to hear from someone who actually used one of them. |
- Posted by patsyathome (My Page) on Thu, Aug 15, 13 at 19:31
A very charming kitchen. The carpet looks nice but how is it to maintain? |
The carpet? Very easy to clean (spot clean with water). Its an antique wool Persian so it's warn-in. |
Your kitchen look so beautiful and most which I liked about your kitchen is the use cabinets. Really they are the beat option to store stuff and they also helps in saving space. |
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- Posted by columbusguy1 (My Page) on Mon, Aug 19, 13 at 1:51
Very nice job, Team! I could happily live with it myself except for the stainless appliances and can lights...kudos on everything else being so wonderful! Some people here point out (mainly after I post, it seems) that we don't live in museums, so kitchens should be useful and to our modern tastes; you have shown that a kitchen can be true to period style, and still function as well as these spoiled gotta-have-every-gadget cooks see in magazines. I'd love to see pics of the rest of the house! |
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ROCHESTER — NCS Global, housing its world headquarters at 32 Innovation Drive partnered with Artstream, the 10 Second St. Dover, NH gallery and design firm to collaborate with local Dover artist Erik Boettcher to create area-specific paintings for NCS Global's new, 30,000 square foot state-of-the-art building.
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Security cameras show two men scamming jewelry store with gold swap.
When Myrna Munoz received a phone call from two men who said they wanted to sell some gold jewelry, she did not think it was suspicious.
It's happening more and more and they had a story to tell.
"They said that they had a lot of jewelry that all the family members came together and put all their gold and that they were ready to sell it because they had a family emergency," said Munoz, with the Joyeria El Ruby store in Denver, Colorado.
Munoz says they handed over a bag of real gold jewelry complete with 10 pieces that were tested and amounted to about $11,000.
Munoz says they were in the process of giving the two men cash for their gold when their apparent plan went into play.
"My mom was counting the money out for them. They manage to switch out the bags of the gold," said Munoz. "So, they left all this which is fake gold and they took the real gold with the $11,000."
The whole caper was captured clearly on the store's surveillance system.
The thieves were a tall, slender Hispanic man and a short, stocky Hispanic man.
The tape shows that when store owner was not looking, the shorter man takes the bag of real gold under his arm and replaces it with an identical bag.
Munoz says it was filled with exact replicas of the real stuff.
"There was a Cuban cut chain like this. There was a man's bracelet just like this," said Munoz. "It was 45 grams that we purchased to them as real gold and this fake gold weighs exactly 45 grams."
Neighbors say they saw the two men sprint from the store and jump into a black SUV.
Munoz turned everything over to Denver Police with high hopes they'll be caught, but little hope of getting the cash back.
Munoz says losing that money is a big blow.
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For all of you keeping up with my recent beading chapter I endearingly call "GBBAWTTLSB" (Great Big Bead Adventures with Those Tiny Little Seed Beads), you know I'm hopelessly in love with the peyote stitch. I, like you, have stitched away the hours, heavily addicted, I mean enticed, by the endless beautiful jewelry I can create with one simple stitch. I've been encouraged to broaden my horizons, open up to a new world, and move onto another stitch. Eeenie-meenie-miny-moe; which stitch to select?
Herringbone seems to be mighty popular with us beady folks, so perhaps it will be the next stitch on my beady bucket list. Anybody care to join me? Here are some quick-an- easy steps to begin to herringbone.
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1. Start with a 2-beads-at-a-time ladder. (See the ladder-stitch illustration if you need help with this step.) Exit out of the end bead in Row 1.
These steps seem pretty simple to me. Of course my dream project is Beautiful Bargello by Tina Koyama in Best of Beadwork 12 Flat & Tubular Herringbone-Stitch Projects.
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I bought a small orange tree about 4 months ago and transplanted it into a wine barrel. It was very healthy initially, but has since developed spots brownish red spots on the leaves and has some yellowing of the leaves. I've fertilized it with generic citrus fertilizer twice this year and applied compost to the base recently. It drains very well. From what I've read the spots can be bacterial/fungal or citrus canker. The spots aren't really raised, so I'm hoping that it's not canker. I'm hoping someone will have some tips for how to get the tree back to a happy state. Thanks in advance! |
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- Posted by poncirusguy 6b Cincinnati, OH (My Page) on Sun, Jul 27, 14 at 16:38
I love that barrel for a citrus tree I am doing half drums and love it. I don't know how to help you but some one here will Barrel power!!!! Steve |
- Posted by ken_adrian MI z5 (My Page) on Sun, Jul 27, 14 at 16:51
being a tree guy.. rather than a citrus expert ... tell us about the media in the pot ... when i grow trees in pots.. its about half bark chunks ... yours looks like all high peat potting soil ... which might not favor a tree ... and though it might drain.. it still might be HOLDING much more water.. than the tree wants ..... a stressed plant.. suffers all kinds of problems.... but solving an effect.. may not address the cause ... i also wonder.. when this started.. and if it was shortly after transplant ... was it bare rooted... was it hardened off to full sun .. etc ... it is not uncommon ... for recent transplants.. to SHOW damage... when the heat of summer really sets in ... the insult to the root mass being long ago.. many peeps are again.. reacting to the effect.. rather than searching for the cause.. which could have been back then ... again.. as a tree guy... i would not have fert'd a recent transplant tree for the first year .... especially.. within a month or two of transplant... you are already on feeding #2 ... try to keep in mind.. they are not children ... and do not need to be continuously fed .... though i fully understand.. that fruit peeps do things much differently ... so all i am doing.. is raising variables which come to my mind ... and look forward to how citrus growers might differ ... ken |
Did a quick search and it doesn't look like brown spot, canker or scab. Likely insect damage but there may also be minor elements deficiency (orange/yellowing in leaves). My suggestion is alternating (minimum 1 to 2 weeks apart) citrus nutritional spray, neem and copper fungicide. Both neem & and copper are fungicidal, but neem is also effective on a number of insects. However, the damage is still very minor so you may want to start with the nutritional spray and closely observe what visitors your tree is entertaining :) Disclaimer: I'm SE FL Zone 10. I have key lime & meyer lemon (both potted). I had leaves on the meyer like yours in the winter. Now I'm doing leafminer control (as if!) Good luck! |
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Sorry! Meant to add, spray very late in the day. This minimizes damage to leaves and pollinators. I didn't realize this til recently. Learn something new every day :) Good luck!! |
It looks like the corky blisters that form on lesions caused by edema. I really see no indication of insect issues at all. The yellow blotching is a bit worrisome. Are you using a specialty fertilizer for citrus? (Ken....your 'not children ' analogy doesn't belong here. Citrus are heavy feeders.) I would take your images and some of the affected leaves to your local Extension office (UC Cooperative Extension) . |
Thank you for the replies. Fertilizer: I'm using Vigoro's citrus and avocado 6-4-6. I've been fertilizing quarterly, but just read the new package and it says I should do it monthly during this time of year. I would expect that would impact the yellowing--I still don't understand the brownish red spots. I don't think I'm overwatering--the pot drains too well, if anything. |
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The leaves show a light green: actually you need more nitrogen in your fertilizer. |
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Offering more than 50 workshops, which range in topic from sunrise meditation to fire spinning, the Three Days of Light Gathering (3DL) returns to the mountains this weekend. But 3DL director and founder Scott Love says says the three-day music and healing arts festival isn't exclusively for people who "wear patchouli and have dreads."
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It's a well-documented fact at this juncture: Asheville's sound is a melting pot, a smorgasbord, a sonic gumbo. But just in case you needed further proof, this week's roundup — pulled at random from a stack of submitted CDs — turns up rock, Americana, world/spiritual, bluegrass and jazz guitar. Consider it potluck listening. Shed by […]


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Askins Family
Compiled by Robert Buecher
Phillemon Askins was one of the early settlers of the Millstadt area having settled near there about 1828. He was born in Farquair County, Virginia on February 20, 1768, a son of Edward Askins and Nancy, nee Waters. Edward had served in the Revolutionary War and married Nancy on 4 October 1765 in Farquair County, Virginia. The family also lived in Fayette County, PA until about 1789 when they moved by keel boat to Washington County, KY where they settled near Springfield.
Askins and Philena Staton were married on July 1, 1790 in Nelson Co., KY. Philena was born in Maryland on October 19,
The Askins
family came to Illinois about 1818 and first settled near Granite City. They then moved to Scott County, IL about
1826 where the mother, Philena Staton Askins, died on March 28, 1826. After the death of his wife, Phillemon
Askins brought several of his children to settle near Millstadt about 1828. Phillemon died in May 1831 and is buried in
Union Hill Cemetery [1],
near Millstadt.
The following 12 children were born to Phillemon and Philena Askins, nee Staton [2]:
[1] The tombstone inscriptions from Union Hill Cemetery were published in Millstadt Township Cemeteries, St. Clair County, IL, by the St. Clair County Genealogical Society, June 2007; pp. 78-82.
[2] Askins Family Bible Records were published in the St. Clair County Genealogical Society Quarterly, Volume 9 (1986) # 3, page 138-139
[3] According to his tombstone inscription in Union Hill Cemetery, Rev. John M. Bloom was born 1 Feb. 1776 and died 11 August 1841.
[4] According to his tombstone inscription in Union Hill Cemetery, Rev. Talbot died on 26 March 1855 at the age of 66 years.
[5] Joshua Waters Hughes died in Scotland County, Missouri in March 1901.
[6] His biographical sketch was published in the History of St. Clair County, Illinois; Philadelphia: Brink, McDonough & Co.; 1881; p. 257. Another sketch, written by a descendant John G. Askins, was published in the History of St. Clair County, IL; 1988, pp. 118-119.
[7] Malinda Jane Russell Askins died on May 9, 1904. Her obituary was published in the Millstadt Enterprise, May 13, 1904, page 4.


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Monopoly players that are fans of the wheelbarrow playing piece better take notice. The piece is currently on the losing end of votes to remove one of the classic play tokens as Hasbro runs a promotion to bring a new piece into play.
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In this video, Utah's sophomore forward speaks on how and what made him lose 30 pounds in the offseason. He also talks about the upcoming year and some of the goals set forth by his Utes.
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Name:Zabuza Moreno
Nick Name: One-Eye
DF:Heart Heart fruit
Strength:Traveling Sushi cook
Skillednly with knives
Background: Born in a little known town, Janoko, from the GL. Legend has it that 'Red Shoes' Zeff is my grandfather. I say legend because I was a very bad cook until I discovered that I was a child progeny for Sushi at age five, creating masterpeices of the culanary art. I am called 'One-Eye' because of a tragic Sushi accident when I was six. I was the Head Cook for the King of Sanoko until I accidently ate the Heart Heart devil fruit. The King was furious and banished me from Sanoko until I was 'purged' of the fruit; which means when I die my body may go back home. Upon my banisment I became a proficent knife fighter. Refusing to injure my fingers, I put protective guards on the hilt of all my knives which I carry with me all the time. A freindly pirate crew was able to give me a lift from the GL in return for a large meal. The pirates touched me so much that I swore to become a pirate. I am currently looking for work.
The Heart Heart fruit allows me to talk to all animals. This has allowed me fresh new meat because animals are easy to trick into traps. Also, animals will always warn me of danger, be it a storm or pirates or other animals. I hope later to experiment to see how far I can control an animals mind.


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Spanish Club hosts 'Caribbean Breeze'
Spanish Club hosts 'Caribbean Breeze'
For immediate release: Oct. 20, 2011
BLOOMSBURG — H.A.B.L.A.S., Bloomsburg University's Spanish Club, is hosting "Caribbean Breeze," featuring Hispanic food and lessons in Bachata, a Dominican Republic dance, Thursday, Nov. 3, at 6 p.m. in Kehr Union, Multipurpose 345A.
Hispanic food will be sold for $1 for the club members and $2 for the general public. The dance lessons are free of charge. Participants will learn to dance the Bachata and prepare typical Latin foods, including Venezuelan arepas, little corncakes that are stuffed with fillings.
For more information, contact Amarilis Hidalgo-DeJesus, professor in languages and cultures, firstname.lastname@example.com or (570) 389-4578.
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Wednesday, January 16, 2013 2:06 AM EST
Obama's parallel universe
By E. Thomas McClanahan
Most Americans, even those who pay little attention to politics and Washington's squabbling, understand the government has a huge debt and deficit problem. The phrase "trillion-dollar deficits" is a leitmotif of the Obama years.
Revenues cratered when the recession arrived, but most people understand the major reason for these deficits is the spending explosion that came soon after. The spending was amped up by a gargantuan stimulus package and has continued.
But guess what? We're silly to worry about the deficit because federal spending is no big deal.
At least, that's what President Obama says.
In an interview last week with The Wall Street Journal, House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, described one of the most astonishing moments during his fiscal-cliff talks with the White House.
"At one point several weeks ago," Boehner recalled, "the president said to me, 'We don't have a spending problem.'"
That would be news to the Congressional Budget Office, which has declared federal spending is on an "unsustainable long-term fiscal path," or Obama's own debt commission, which concluded, "Even after the economy recovers, federal spending is projected to increase faster than revenues. ..."
Obama told Boehner that instead of a spending problem, we have a "health-care problem," meaning the rising costs of Medicare and Medicaid.
Boehner said well, sure, we have a health-care problem, but we also have a big spending problem, to which Obama replied, "I'm getting tired of hearing you say that."
It makes you wonder what parallel universe the White House occupies. It seems to be a place where Medicare and Medicaid don't spend money.
What's surprising about this is how little comment Obama's remark has generated, perhaps because when it comes to the budget, what this president says is no longer surprising.
But it's still baffling, given that in other times and places, he will admit the obvious.
In a 2009 town hall appearance, Obama declared, "Medicare and Medicaid are the single biggest drivers of the federal deficit and the federal debt by a huge margin." If nothing is done, he continued, they "will consume all of the federal budget."
In other words, he understands that what's happening with these programs can safely be described as spending.
In a recent paper, Daniel Thornton of the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank wrote that chronic spending in excess of revenues — outside wartime — is a federal habit that goes back at least 40 years.
The bulging deficits that piled up in that period can't be laid to the Pentagon. Defense spending has risen in recent years, but as a percent of GDP, the trend is decidedly down since the late 1960s. The big increases came from Medicare, Medicaid and "other payments to individuals" — including jobless benefits, food stamps, disability, low-income tax credits and family support.
Since 1970, these categories "account for essentially all of the increase in government spending that has given rise to the deficit/debt problem," Thornton wrote.
Obama knows this full well. Everyone in Washington knows it. Yet Obama fights every attempt to cut non-defense spending and on entitlement reform. He's offered nothing substantial.
If this doesn't change, we'll look back on the Obama years as a time not only of economic stagnation but a period when our worst problems simply were allowed to fester.
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posted by: gardenguru1950 on 03.18.2007 at 02:16 pm in Cooking Forum The chef at Marianne's restaurant in Pasadena gave this to me almost 30 years ago...
1/2 cup olive oil Blend together all ingredients. Cover and refrigerate. I think Marianne's, the restaurant, is now gone. Joe NOTES: <none>
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posted by: solsthumper on 03.06.2007 at 08:41 pm in Cooking Forum Stacy and Annie, kids of all ages love these, it's a cross between a cinnamom sugar doughnut and a muffin. Enjoy.
3 cups AP flour, minus 3 tablespoons
Topping *** ľ cups unsalted butter, melted
Preheat oven to 400ş F. Place the rack in the center position. Generously grease a 12-cup standard muffin pan. Sift the flour, baking powder, salt, nutmeg and cardamon into a mixing bowl. In another bowl, cream the butter and sugar until light and fluffy. Scrape the bowl down half way through. Mix in the eggs. Add the dry ingredients alternately with the milk in two additions, mixing gently by hand to incorporate all the flour. The batter will be on the stiff side, but airy. Don't over mix or beat the batter as this will make the muffins tough. Spoon the batter into the prepared pan, without smoothing the tops. Bake for about 25 minutes or until a cake tester inserted in the center comes out clean. As soon as the muffins are cool enough to handle, turn them out onto a wire rack. Add the melted butter to a bowl. In another bowl, mix the sugar and cinnamon.
*I've made this twice, and both times, this recipe has yielded 16 muffins instead of 12.
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Learn more about Variations 3:London Compilation:
Format: CD
Manufacturer: PARADIGM RECORDS/FORCED EXPOSU
Sku: 241761268
Release Date: 11/6/2012
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Song Listing
Disc 1
Song Title
1. Ruckhousing - Syngen Brown ~ Various Artists
2. Rainer's Corpse - Syngen Brown ~ Various Artists
3. Midland Educational - Syngen Brown ~ Various Artists
4. Live At Lewisham Arthouse - (live) ~ Various Artists
5. Depths - Phil Durrant ~ Various Artists
6. Live At the Klinker - Voltage (live) ~ Various Artists
7. Time Spool - Clive Graham ~ Various Artists
8. Ninety and Nine - Andrew King ~ Various Artists
9. Three Inconspicuous Settings - Aquiles Pantaleao ~ Various Artists
10. Alphabet of Fishes [Live At Lewisham Arthouse] - Bob Cobbing (live) ~ Various Artists
11. Tan [Live At Lewisham Arthouse] - Bob Cobbing (live) ~ Various Artists
12. Insults [Live At Lewisham Arthouse] - Bob Cobbing (live) ~ Various Artists
13. Beouf En Crut [Entr?e] - Hastings of Malawi ~ Various Artists
Album Notes and Credits
Notes & Personnel Info |
Performers include: Syngen Brown, Wits, Phil Durrant, Voltage, Clive Graham, Andrew King, Aquiles Pantaleao, Bob Cobbing, Hastings Of Malawi. | |
Photographers: Dennis Austin; Syngen Brown; Esmeralda Mu¤oz-Torrero; Mattias Ek. | |
The third volume in Clive Graham's overview of unique and out-of-the-way sonic conceptions in late 20th century England, once again delivering a generally fascinating and diverse survey. Syngen Brown opens the disc with a delightful trio of pieces made up of roiling, messy electronic washes. There is more music that refers, however obliquely, to rock and folk forms on this disc than on prior offerings in the series, including Voltage's "Live at the Klinker" (in a punk/noise sort of way) and Andrew King's heartfelt rendition of the 19th century ballad "Ninety and Nine." But experimental electronics lie at the heart of this collection, and there are some fine examples herein. Phil Durrant's "Depth" is a furious, boiling work, abstract but remarkably visceral and corporeally present. Graham's own "Time Spool" unwinds in a looser, hymn-like fashion, deftly sidestepping any unnecessary cuteness and revealing a detailed, unusual world full of delicately sheared slabs of soundstuff. If the occasional piece doesn't quite cohere (like the live Wits performance), or if some, such as Bob Cobbing's madcap vocalizations, are a bit of an acquired taste, there is still much here to whet the appetite of anyone interested in the goings-on off the beaten track in England. ~ Brian Olewnick |
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Release Date : 1999 | |
Original Release Date : 2000 | |
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Beasley Farm of Brooksville
Collards 1/8/2012
By: Peggy Steiner (Jan 8, 2012)
I drove to Beasley Farms to get greens. Joann greeted us, then she went into the field and cut collards while we waited. They are big, beautiful, and cooked up wonderful. Hardly any sand in them, and washed up easy. I have always loved Beasley Farms, and living in Brooksville, I need to go shop more often. Thank you Joann and family for all your hard work for your customers to enjoy.
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Le maschere di Venezia al Carnavale di Como
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The Borrower
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Lucy Hull, a young children's librarian in Hannibal, Missouri, finds herself both a kidnapper and kidnapped when her favorite patron, ten- year-old Ian Drake, runs away from home.
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Add a CommentGreat summer read. Easy to get into and meaty enough to keep you reading. Not without its flaws (it's sometimes difficult to understand what motivates the narrator, Lucy). There's a lot to love here including the obvious passion that the author has for books, especially children's books. Would make a good book club selection.
How can you enjoy a book about a woman who works in the children's department of the local library when she kidnaps (borrows) a boy? Or is it he who takes her? This quirky, offbeat novel is fun to read. There are lots of references to children's literature to enjoy along the way. You will need to let yourself go on the adventure to enjoy this story as there are lots of fantastical scenarios and characters that make the whole thing refreshingly different.
Different, not what I expected. I kept reading to the end but am still not sure what the implied message or point of view was.
Lucy Hall is a children's librarian who is practically forced to kidnap her favorite patron, a young boy who she suspects is gay and whose parents are very conservatively religious. Fans of children's literature will have fun with many references to books such as "If you give a librarian a closet...".
I really enjoyed reading this well-written book. The plot was a little implausible and as I was nearing the end I was thinking that the ending would have to kind of lame, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Fun and fresh first novel. The 10 year old Ian character is utterly charming. The whole topic of "gay therapy" and "ex-gay ministries" have been getting attention in the news lately, too, and the APA recognizes them as psychologically abusive. Very book and story-centric, which suited me just fine.
This book was a bit of a disappointment. The premise was really promising, but the plot moved at a glacial pace and the characters weren't interesting enough in themselves to sustain my interest. I made it to the end of the book out of sheer determination, rather than enjoyment. Ostensibly a book for book lovers, there were some interesting devices used. I liked the little chapters that mirrored aspects of the plot but in the format of different popular children's books, such as Eric Carle's "the Very Hungry Caterpillar." Even the title of the book alluded to another childhood favourite "The Borrowers." The parallels drawn between the main character's father running away from Soviet Russia and her own flight from the small town she lived in broke up an otherwise very slow plot.
I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It had a quick pace and kept me reading, unfortunately the book slowed down in the last few chapters. Overall very good though.
An unexpected pleasure to read, the story was interesting and compelling. The characters are well defined and relevant. A great book.
It had potential, however I did not like the fact that the parents of Ian were left out of the narrative during their travels.